전기전자학회논문지 (Journal of IKEEE)

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  • Pages.226-231
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  • 2022
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  • 1226-7244(pISSN)
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  • 2288-243X(eISSN)
한국전기전자학회 (Institute of Korean Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
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엔트로피 필터 구현에 대한 Hardware Architecture

Hardware Architecture for Entropy Filter Implementation

  • Sim, Hwi-Bo (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Dong-A University) ;
  • Kang, Bong-Soon (Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Dong-A University)
  • 투고 : 2022.05.16
  • 심사 : 2022.06.21
  • 발행 : 2022.06.30
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초록

정보 엔트로피의 개념은 다양한 분야에서 폭넓게 응용되고 있다. 최근 영상처리 분야에서도 정보 엔트로피 개념을 응용한 기술들이 많이 개발되고 있다. 현대 산업에서 컴퓨터 비전 기술들의 중요성과 수요가 증가함에 따라, 영상처리 기술들이 현대 산업에 효율적으로 적용되기 위해서는 실시간 처리가 가능해야 한다. 영상의 엔트로피 값을 추출하는 것은 소프트웨어로는 계산량이 복잡해 실시간 처리가 어려우며 실시간 처리가 가능한 영상 엔트로피 필터의 하드웨어 구조는 제안된 적이 없다. 본 논문에서는 barrel shifter를 사용하여 실시간 처리가 가능한 히스토그램 기반 엔트로피 필터의 하드웨어 구조를 제안한다. 제안한 하드웨어는 Verilog HDL을 이용하여 설계하였고, Xilinx사의 xczu7ev-2ffvc1156을 Target device로 설정하여 FPGA 구현하였다. Xilinx Vivado 프로그램을 이용한 논리합성 결과 4K UHD의 고해상도 환경에서 최대 동작 주파수 750.751MHz를 가지며, 1초에 30장 이상의 영상을 처리하며 실시간 처리 기준을 만족함을 보인다.

The concept of information entropy has been widely applied in various fields. Recently, in the field of image processing, many technologies applying the concept of information entropy have been developed. As the importance and demand of computer vision technologies increase in modern industry, real-time processing must be possible in order for image processing technologies to be efficiently applied to modern industries. Extracting the entropy value of an image is difficult to process in real-time due to the complexity of computation in software, and a hardware structure of an image entropy filter capable of real-time processing has never been proposed. In this paper, we propose for the first time a hardware structure of a histogram-based entropy filter that can be processed in real time using a barrel shifter. The proposed hardware was designed using Verilog HDL, and Xilinx's xczu7ev-2ffvc1156 was set as the target device and FPGA was implemented. As a result of logic synthesis using the Xilinx Vivado program, it has a maximum operating frequency of 750.751 MHz in a 4K UHD high-resolution environment, and it processes more than 30 images per second and satisfies the real-time processing standard.

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과제정보

This paper was supported by research funds from Dong-AUniversity.

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